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Google v. China: Google Deserves Our Respect

2010-01-12 22:36:51 by Tim Bass in Cyberstrategics Complex Event Processing Blog
 
In case you have not seen this, David Drummond, Googles SVP, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer has written one of the best blog posts I have even read, A New Approach to China. Google is boldly going where few have ventured to go before, including the US government. China operates as if they can bully
 
 
 
 
 
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A US Constitutional Failure Regarding Our Protection

2010-01-01 03:39:04 by Tim Bass in Cyberstrategics Complex Event Processing Blog
 
Like most of you, I am still in complete shock over Northwest Flight 253 and how our still government cannot connect-the-dots in simple intelligence matters to protect us from harm. In this case, a well-respected father of a radical-Islamic Nigerian named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab reached out to the US Embassy and other organizations in a honorable
 
 
 
 
 
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Cybersecurity: The Problem with Czars

2009-12-23 14:39:47 by Tim Bass in Cyberstrategics Complex Event Processing Blog
 
On December 21st, 2009, the White House announced that friend and colleague Howard Schmidt had been appointed to the Executive Office of the President of the United States to serve as the Cybersecurity Czar for the Obama administration. I find this personally interesting because a few people (only a few, not many) contacted me earlier this
 
 
 
 
 
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Whats Really Happening in the World of CEP

2009-12-15 15:37:44 by Tim Bass in Cyberstrategics Complex Event Processing Blog
 
There is quite a lot is happening in the world of complex event processing. Interestingly enough, the people and the companies advancing processing complex events are not calling what they are doing CEP the Buzzword we read about in the press or that a handful of pioneers claim make them modern-day CEP experts. The companies processing
 
 
 
 
 
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Web 3.0 and the Holy Grail - Universal Language Translation (Part 1)

2009-11-27 14:53:42 by Tim Bass in Cyberstrategics Complex Event Processing Blog
 
Bookstores everywhere in the world are full of dictionaries, language courses and common phrase guides for foreign travel. I dont have the estimates in front of me, but language translation goods and services - books, electronic gadgets, human translators, interpreters and more, must be a multi-billion dollar global business. Companies like
 
 
 
 
 
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Suggestions to Improve the (ISC)² Blog

2009-10-26 13:44:02 by Tim Bass in Cyberstrategics Complex Event Processing Blog
 
In the beginning of the (ISC)² blog a number of us enjoyed contributing because the blog was full of posts insightful original security-related pieces. However, over time, many of us have simply stopped writing for the (ISC)² blog. One main reason for this is that we dont want to spend the time to write a thoughtful
 
 
 
 
 
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Global Warming: It is Not Only the Climate, Stupid!

2009-09-27 11:39:11 by Tim Bass in Cyberstrategics Complex Event Processing Blog
 
I find it interesting how governments and other organizations are focused on climate change and global warming. Of course, the threat to our environment is real, there is little doubt about it. However, did you ever stop to think about real global warming? Although climate change is a very critical part of global warming, I
 
 
 
 
 
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Complex Event Processing in the Belly of the Beast

2009-09-22 10:36:36 by Tim Bass in Cyberstrategics Complex Event Processing Blog
 
Around 10 years ago I worked as Technical Director for SAIC as a member of an elite group of Internet security experts. I was responsible for a number of very large global financial corporations (well, actually two). The leader of our division, called The Center of Information Protection (The CIP), was a very intelligent
 
 
 
 
 
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GeoIP and Geo-Targetting

2009-09-08 14:52:44 by Tim Bass in Cyberstrategics Complex Event Processing Blog
 
Lately I have been busy with a web-based geo-targetting project. For those of you not familiar with geo-targetting, the deeper you get into geo-targetting, the more you realize how important and interesting it is. Geo-targetting is used for fraud detection, personalization, ad-targetting, content-delivery, and more. In addition, the same basic...
 
 
 
 
 
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Chiang Mai: Worlds 5th Best City by Travel and Leisure

2009-08-15 05:34:06 by Tim Bass in Cyberstrategics Complex Event Processing Blog
 
I recently noticed that the city I live, Chiang Mai, was listed as the number five best city in the world, 2009, by Travel and Leisure. Actually, I agree Chiang Mai is a great city to live, that is why I live here, of course. The food is amazingly good. The weather is great. The
 
 
 
 
 
 
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